Mystery Tales #51

(March 1957)

Inside the Mummy Case (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-510

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Joe Waters; Mr. Stern

Synopsis

An undead mummy attempts to slay a museum guard by using telepathic suggestion to get him to open a booby-trapped section of the mummy case.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #20 (1963 ?)
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #32 (1968 ?) [Black and white.]
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #150 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
• in Dracula (Red Clown, 1974 series) #4/1975 (April 1975)
• in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #16 (April 1975)

The Lizard (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Al Williamson (signed)

Inks

Ralph Mayo

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-509

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #74, #20 (1963 ?), #150 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
• in The Art of Al Williamson (Pacific Comics, 1983 series) (April 1983)
• in Crypt of Horror (AC, 2005 series) #33 (2017)

What World Is This? (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ross Andru

Inks

Mike Esposito

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-347

Genre

crime; horror-suspense

Synopsis

A thief hiding from his pursuers makes a wish that time would stand still. After he succeeds in evading his pursuers, he comes upon a town where the people appear to be frozen and he thinks this is due to his wish, until he hears a plane. He goes outside to look at the plane and notices a sign reading 'atom city' and recalls reading an article in the paper about a mock city constructed by scientists in order to gauge the devastation of the atom bomb and realizes that the people he saw must be dummies. He looks up at the plane, and sees a small object drop from the bombbay doors.

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #19 (1963 ?), #149 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
• in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #18 (April 1975)
• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #223 ([circa 1984 - 1985])
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #216 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

The Strange Seeds! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Ed Winiarski

Inks

Ed Winiarski

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-511

Reprints

• in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #19
• in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #28 (1968 ?)

Indexer Notes

Anti-communism story. Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

All In The Mind (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 1.66 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

G-297

Indexer Notes

Job number suggests a reprint from an unknown source.

I'll Get You Later (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Dave Berg (signed)

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-467

Reprints

• in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #20 (1963 ?), #150 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
• in Uncanny Tales (Alan Class, 1963 series) #179 ([circa 1987 - 1988])

Indexer Notes

Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

Statement of Ownership (Table of Contents: 7)

statement of ownership / 0.34 page (report information)

Script

Monroe Froehlich Jr.

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

For 1 Oct 1956. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager.

Four Empty Chairs! (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Marvin Stein

Inks

Marvin Stein

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

L-424

Synopsis

A man's family disappears one evening and a stranger explains to the town sheriff that they are from another dimension waiting for a lightning bolt of sufficient strength to send them all back to their home dimension. The sheriff thinks the story is nonsense but suddenly a powerful lightning bolt flashes and both the stranger and the man have disappeared as well.

Reprints

• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #2
• in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #9 (April 1975)
• in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #203 ([circa 1984 - 1985])